Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Star

The men's Star was a sailing event on the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics program in Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.[1] Eleven races (last one a medal race) were scheduled and completed. 32 sailors, on 16 boats, from 16 nations competed. Ten boats qualified for the medal race on course area Nothe in front of Weymouth, where each position scored double points.

Men’s Star
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Line drawing of the Star
VenueWeymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Dates29 July – 5 August
Competitors32 from 16 nations
Teams16 (boats)
Medalists
Fredrik Lööf
Max Salminen
 Sweden
Iain Percy
Andrew Simpson
 Great Britain
Robert Scheidt
Bruno Prada
 Brazil

Schedule[1][2]

  Practice race  Race on West  Race on South  Medal race on Nothe
Date July August
26
Thu
27
Fri
28
Sat
29
Sun
30
Mon
31
Tue
1
Wed
2
Thu
3
Fri
4
Sat
5
Sun
6
Mon
7
Tue
8
Wed
9
Thu
10
Fri
11
Sat
12
Sun
Men’s Star 2 2 2 Spare
day
2 2 Spare
day
MR
Stars during the 2012 Summer Olympics

Course areas and course configurations [3]

Course areas

For the Star course areas Nothe, West, and South were used. The location (50° 36.18’ N 02° 25.98’ W) points to the center of the Nothe course area, the location (50° 37.18’ N 02° 23.55’ W) points to the center of the West course area and the location (50° 35.71’ N 02° 22.08’ W) points to the center of the South course area. The target time for the course was 60 – 75 minutes for the races and 30 minutes for the medal race. The race management could choose from many course configurations.

Results

Results of individual races
PosHelmsmanCountry IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIIIIXXMRTot Pts
Fredrik Lööf
Max Salminen
 Sweden10441534126242.032.0
Iain Percy
Andrew Simpson
 Great Britain112321212411645.034.0
Robert Scheidt
Bruno Prada
 Brazil41962135131449.040.0
4 Eivind Melleby
Petter Morland Pedersen
 Norway7524161184751079.063.0
5 Hamish Pepper
Jim Turner
 New Zealand157113659889485.070.0
6 Robert Stanjek
Frithjof Kleen
 Germany698746BFD 171194687.070.0
7 Mark Mendelblatt
Brian Fatih
 United States51453895103111285.071.0
8 Mateusz Kusznierewicz
Dominik Życki
 Poland93121034291321885.072.0
9 Xavier Rohart
Pierre-Alexis Ponsot
 France11310111214116688100.086.0
10 Peter O'Leary
David Burrows
 Ireland261451112DSQ 17711720112.095.0
11 Michael Hestbæk
Claus Olesen
 Denmark12111314137631410 103.089.0
12 Richard Clarke
Tyler Bjorn
 Canada16106810OCS 171312513 110.093.0
13 Flavio Marazzi
Enrico de Maria
 Switzerland13811915810131516 118.0102.0
14 Aimilios Papathanasiou
Antonis Tsotras
 Greece316712715BFD 17DSQ 17OCS 1712 123.0106.0
15 Afonso Domingos
Frederico Melo
 Portugal141515169107141014 124.0108.0
16 Marin Lovrović, Jr.
Dan Lovrović
 Croatia8121615141312151215 132.0116.0

    Scoring system: low-point system; Source: [4]
    Legend:   – Qualified for medal race(s); DSQ – Disqualified; OCSOn the course side of the starting line; – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;

    Daily standings

    Graph showing the daily standings in the men’s Star during the 2012 Summer Olympics

    Further reading

    • "Digital Library Collection (Official Olympic Reports 1896 - 2008)". Digital Library Collection at la84.org. la84foundation. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
    • "London 2012". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.

    References

    1. "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Notice of Race" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
    2. "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Sailing Instructions" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2014.
    3. "London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition Provisional course assignment" (PDF). 25 July 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
    4. "Men's Two Person Keelboat". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
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